Madonna is now the official permanent guardian of son David Banda, who she adopted from Malawi, a judge there ruled Wednesday.Though Banda, 3, has been staying with Madonna and husband Guy Ritchie since October 2006, the adoption process is just now complete.”We are very happy with what the judge has ruled,” the singer’s lawyer told reporters in the country’s capital of Lilongwe.

Madonna recently premiered a documentary she made about orphans in Malawi.

“I was allowed to view footage and photographs of a lot of the children,” she told Oprah Winfrey in 2006. “An 8-year-old girl who is living with HIV was holding this child. I became transfixed by him. … But I didn’t yet know I was going to adopt him. I was just drawn to him.”

Madonna said David had survived malaria and tuberculosis but “no one looking after [his] welfare.”

Madonna, 49, and Ritchie have two other children: Lourdes, 11, and Rocco, 7.
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